On some claims in Ramanujan's `unpublished' manuscript on the partition and tau functions

Details On some claims in Ramanujan's `unpublished' manuscript on the partition and tau functions On some claims in Ramanujan's `unpublished' manuscript on the partition and tau functions

2002-01-28

arxiv.org/abs/math/0201265v2

Ramanujan J. 8 (2004), 317-330.

Mathematics

Number Theory

14 pages, 1 table. Slightly revised version that will appear in The Ramanujan Journal

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Towards the end of his life Ramanujan wrote a manuscript on properties of the partition and tau functions, some parts of which remained unpublished until very recently. Nevertheless, this manuscript gave rise to a lot of subsequent work. In it Ramanujan considers congruences for $\tau(n)$ modulo some special primes q. He proves for example that $\tau(n)\equiv \sum_{d|n}d^{11}({\rm mod}691)$. He defines $t_n=1$ if $\tau(n)$ is not divisible by q and $t_n=0$ otherwise. He then typically writes: "It can be shown by transcendental methods that $$ \sum_{k=1}^n t_k=C\int_1^n {dx\over (\log x)^{\delta}}+O({n\over (\log n)^r}). $$ where r is any positive number" (after stating some weaker estimates for the above sum). The number $\delta$ is a positve rational number depending on q and for the positive number C Ramanujan usually wrote down an Euler product. In this paper it is shown that Ramanujan's claim for every $r>1+\delta$ and each of the special primes q is false. Furthermore, we correct a 1928 paper of Geraldine Stanley who claimed to have disproved Ramanujan's claim in case q=5.

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